In the real world Obama is president, Obamacare is law, SCOTUS has never been overturned on Wickard, Kelo, Helvering, Penn Central, the Gold Clause Cases, Home Building and Loan, Carolene Products, the Shreveport Rate Cases, Miller, Korematsu, Bakke, much of McConnell, etc. The draft is not involuntary servitude, we fight endless wars around the globe for...something, the national debt is more than GDP, not only will we not reform entitlement programs but we keep adding them, everyone including me is a hopeless egalitarian, we have if not pure socialism at the very least used to be called fascism before Hitler warped its meaning to most ears, the sector that pays all the taxes is accused of not paying its fair share and people believe it, healthcare, “food justice,” free cell phones, free contraception, free college education, free healthcare, and countless other things are becoming inalienable rights.
The real world sucks. We need to compare it to something outside itself to understand it.
The real world sucks. We need to compare it to something outside itself to understand it.
I see a lot of comparing and not a whole lot of understanding. I would give this intellectual exercise a great deal more credit if it produced results. My fear is that we're going to spend the rest of the century cursing the status quo and saying, "Remember 2010? That was awesome!"